Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is a university art gallery recognized across Canada for the rigorous nature of its programming. It examines current artistic and curatorial practices as well as the context in which they evolve. Its exhibitions, projections, performances, lectures and publications are devised as a form of inquiry in order to foster critical thinking. Its programming also has a historical reach that attempts to frame the present in relation to the recent past of contemporary art.

Posts from Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University

Exposing Resource Ecologies brings together seven works produced by World of Matter, an international art and media project investigating primary materials and the complex ecologies in which they are embedded. Initiated [...]

The evolving exhibition Speculations. Risquer l'interprétation comprises three parts, which present various interpretations and installations of the same body of works. Created by 13 artists, these modern and contempora[...]

The famous and controversial statement uttered by Canada's former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was a response to the political crisis that swept Quebec in the wake of the Quiet Revolution. The 1970s were a perio[...]

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents the first exhibition to examine the video and performance work of Montreal artist Olivia Boudreau. Since 2004, Olivia Boudreau has combined video and performance in works[...]

A gap always manifest itself between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation, or between the inaugural presentation of an artwork in one context and its display in a second.
In this project[...]

"When I state that I am an anarchist, I must also state that I am not an anarchist, to be in keeping with the (….) idea of anarchism. Long live anarchism. "—Christopher D'Arcangelo
Between 1975 and 1979, the North[...]

Is art an object or a process? Is it "material" or "trace"? Shifts in art practice over the past 50 years, particularly in art world centers in Europe and the US, and more recently in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, [...]

Curated by Michèle Thériault. This exhibition revisits a set of projects realized over the past twelve years by Martin Beck, whose interests lie at the intersection of art, design, architecture, and historical inquiry.[...]

This exhibition presented in two parts, examines a significant body of work produced over a 35-year period by this Québécois conceptual artist whose practice resonates deeply with contemporary art and attitudes. Pres[...]

Kent Monkman and Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, the artist's alter ego transform the Ellen Art Gallery into a camp of military tents in which the new "Canada" that emerges in the decisive battle of the Plains of Abraham bet[...]

From afar, the shifting phenomenon of magnetic north provides guidance not unlike Polaris, but as one draws close to the shadowy realm of the Arctic, navigation and communication begin to go awry, forcing the nomad to ex[...]

Documentary Protocols (1967-1975) is the third part of an ambitious project that took place over a three-year period, and that also included two exhibitions (Documentary Protocols I and Documentary Protocols II) curated [...]